North Central US | Obsolete - 11/18/2025 16:19
I think it has gotten below freezing just a handful of times so far. Friend went to Eastern Montana for 2 weeks deer hunting and says it rarely got below freezing over there. What is going on with our weather? Climate change?
It's called its normal for here. There was an old newspaper posted on Facebook in a North Dakota group that stated in the late 1800s it was 70 in mid November for a week in western ND.
Our winters in Eastern Montana and Western ND are not standard or ever the same. I remember growing up one year the grass was green at Christmas and the next I couldn't see over the snowbanks along the sidewalks and the thermometer bottomed out below all the marks. Another winter was green until Christmas then white until May.
Our winters are odd compared to elsewhere. Its not because of climate change, weather, or whatever you want to blame it on. Its been this way here for 200 years, and longer than that if you call the Indians' records even slightly accurate.
Why do you think Theodore Roosevelt and others had massive ranches here for decades where they didn't make hay? It was believed winters were always mild, with an occasional bout of actual winter. |
Warm weather
